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Issue 3 2011 / 20 June 2011 / Fredrik Sundberg, Global Director, Strategic Market Development, GE Healthcare
As a company whose expertise includes medical imaging and information technologies, performance improvement and biopharmaceutical manufacturing, GE Healthcare is well placed to support drug discovery innovation and productivity. With the Pharma industry moving away from blockbuster discoveries and focusing more on orphan drugs and rare diseases in the hopes of achieving medical breakthroughs with wider implications, GE Healthcare sees this impacting on the development of new drugs. “It will require faster, more flexible development capabilities and smaller-scale batch production operations,” Sundberg surmises. “It will be of key importance to try to decrease time-to-market (TTM) to get a return of investment as quickly as possible.” (more…)
Industry news, News / 28 April 2011 / College Hill Ltd
GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company (NYSE:GE), today announced it has reached an agreement to acquire Applied Precision, Inc., a supplier of innovative cellular imaging technologies for the fast-growing cell biology and biomedical research sectors. The acquisition of Applied Precision will allow GE Healthcare to expand its offering of products and services for pharmaceutical and life science research. The strategic fit between the two businesses, combined with expanded capabilities in product development and marketing, will offer significant long-term customer benefits. Financial terms were not disclosed.
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Industry news, News / 24 February 2011 / GE Healthcare
GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company (NYSE:GE) announced today that on 1 April 2011, Kieran Murphy will be promoted to succeed current Life Sciences President and CEO Peter Ehrenheim who will retire from GE after a transition period on July 31 2011. Kieran is currently GE Healthcare’s Head of Global Commercial Operations, Life Sciences.
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Industry news, News / 18 February 2011 / GE Healthcare
GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company (NYSE:GE) announced today that on 1 April 2011, Kieran Murphy will be promoted to succeed current Life Sciences President and CEO Peter Ehrenheim who will retire from GE after a transition period on July 31 2011. Kieran is currently GE Healthcare’s Head of Global Commercial Operations, Life Sciences.
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Industry news, News / 1 December 2010 / Johnson & Johnson
Janssen Pharmaceutica N.V., (Janssen) today announced a research agreement to collaborate with GE Healthcare to develop non-invasive or minimally invasive diagnostic biosignatures to detect Alzheimer’s disease prior to the onset of clinical symptoms. Pre-symptomatic biosignatures will allow earlier diagnosis of the disease and may enable significantly earlier intervention in Alzheimer’s disease.
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Featured news, News / 30 June 2010 / kdm communications limited
Registration for the second annual WIN Symposium on personalized cancer medicine is still open, with a preferential rate available until the 4th of July. This unique event, to be held on the 7th to 9th of July 2010 in the Palais des Congrès, Paris, will offer an unprecedented opportunity to discuss the latest advances in tailored cancer medicine, focusing on early diagnosis and rapid translation of scientific discoveries to clinical practice.
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Industry Focus 2010, Past issues / 22 February 2010 /
It would be fair to say that these past 12 months have been a watershed year for stem cell science. In years to come we may look back on 2009 and recognise it as the year in which nascent areas of science, medicine and technology came together to slowly nudge stem cell biology into the mainstream. Scientific and academic progress aside, it also may mark the year in which the field first matured to a stage at which commercial viability came to the cusp of realisation. (more…)
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